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#1

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

#2

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life

8225 likes

#3

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

tags: inspirational

3950 likes

#4

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
― George Bernard Shaw, BBC Radio presents Man and superman

tags: food, gluttony, love

1291 likes

#5

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: adaptation, change, open-mindedness, self-improvement

2788 likes

#6

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
― Puck Magazine

tags: misattributed-confucius, misattributed-g-b-shaw

823 likes

#7

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: desire, life, lost, paradox, tragedy

1730 likes

#8

“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
― George Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island

tags: humor

682 likes

#9

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

tags: art, reminding

751 likes

#10

“After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”
― George Bernard Shaw

535 likes

#11

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: ideas

639 likes

#12

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”
― George Bernard Shaw

309 likes

#13

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma

248 likes

#14

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: english-playwright

350 likes

#15

“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

350 likes

#16

“War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
― Anonymous

tags: misattributed-bernard-shaw, misattributed-bertrand-russell, war

1544 likes

#17

“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: attributed, definitions, drinking, shaw-review-10

273 likes

#18

“Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”
― George Bernard Shaw

174 likes

#19

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
― George Bernard Shaw

250 likes

#20

“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

tags: arrogance, ignorance, politicians, politics

760 likes

#21

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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